Xonar DG - ultimate budget headphone card?

PapaLazaru said:
Having played with mine for a couple of months now, I am still very much impressed with this. £25.00 very well spent. :)
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I've had mine for around a month now and I love it. Im only running on Logitech X-540's but use my PC for music and watching stuff. So much clearer and crisp and at £25 its a steal in my opinion!
 
PapaLazaru said:
Having played with mine for a couple of months now, I am still very much impressed with this. £25.00 very well spent. :)
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Got mine about the same time as you, have to say I am very impressed. Easily the best upgrade to an allright system (Q6600, 4GB, 5850) for £25 there is. I was a complete sceptic to soundcards, after the foul taste left in my mouth from Creative some years ago. Blown away by the DG. And thats with £20 Goldring DR50 headphones!

Suffice to say I will pay more attention to sound in future builds :)
 
It has a headphone amp built in but it's not quite as good as using a £15 E5 headphone amp.

I think what you have experienced here is the kick headphones get when amped through headphone amps.

It's quite pronounced.
 
C64 said:
It has a headphone amp built in but it's not quite as good as using a £15 E5 headphone amp.

I think what you have experienced here is the kick headphones get when amped through headphone amps.

It's quite pronounced.
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Truth that. Plus Dolby Headphones and better equalizer. There's still a difference in sound quality regardless of them.
 
C64 said:
It has a headphone amp built in but it's not quite as good as using a £15 E5 headphone amp.

I think what you have experienced here is the kick headphones get when amped through headphone amps.

It's quite pronounced.
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So you reckon £15 one of these will be a good addition for my DG?
 
Glad to hear the DG is getting good reviews as I am getting on in my newbuild! Here's hoping it lives up to the hype!!
 
It sounds awesome, but as soon as I install it, I get random BSOD, frequently. Windows 7-64 p5q-e. have reinstalled windows 3 times. Always installing sound drivers last, and lo and behold, danger!

is onboard sound disabled in Bios? ATI hd Audio disabled? - oh the cheek of you people!

have tried the last 3 drivers, and the unified modded driver. Different slots etc.

I did get a few hours on BC2 and jesus its sounds so good on the seinheisers of the soundmax 71 onboard
 
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The only things that have caused my a BSoD have been:
Enabling GX (seriously, it's one buggy piece of crap that has caused me no end of headaches because it defaulted as enabled).
ATi's HDMI pass-through, seems to conflict with a lot of things (or did anyhow) so I just never install now.

I managed to run onboard side-by-side with the DG for a couple of weeks with no issue (although eventually disabled because there was no use for it). Obviously though with different boards YYMV.
 
Auraomega said:
I managed to run onboard side-by-side with the DG for a couple of weeks with no issue.
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I have been since I bought it with no issues. Will probably ditch the onboard soon as soon as I can work out how to have everything plugged in without me having to swop cables over when wanting to use my speakers.
 
Get a headphone splitter cable if you have no shielded front audio. They can be picked up for around £5 and allow you to have either plugged in.
 
Sorry I've had no need for one fortunately my front audio is shielded. I'm sure if you looked at some respected AV shops you'd find something.
 
I've just swapped my old X-Fi Xtreme Music for this card but I'm having some problems I hope someone can help me with.

With the X-Fi it was pretty simple, I'd configure the speaker setup in Windows for 5.1 and I duly had front left, front right, centre, sub, rear left and rear right. However with the Xonar installed if I configure the speakers in Windows and select 5.1 there's no rear speakers, only side speakers. In order to get my rear speakers back again I need to select 7.1 which the Xonar doesn't support nor my speaker setup.

If anyone can understand my crap description of the problem can they advise what I need to do?
 
hi all, i've had this card for a while now (only just found this thread) and have a pair of roccat kave (great headphones). Only use this pc for gaming (no music listening) and the in game sound is great, but i go on a teamspeak3 server a lot as well and voices are very echo(y), the padded cell effect makes it okish but wondered if anyone else had a simular prob. would be interested to know how people have their audio centre set up for gaming and ts.

thx,

hagler
 
Fixed my Beesods, was a windows update.

I am also interested to see what settings people use for gaming.

(1) with stereo headphones (got seinheiser 465)
(2) with 5.1 headphones (got the zalaman's)

I dont care about natural sounding, I only care about footsteps on dust2 and choppers.

There might be other games, but there are only 3 games in my heart.

SF2 hyperfight arcade. 1992-2004 (retired)
CS and CSS 2001 - present
BFBC2 - 2010 - present
 
.Griff. said:
I've just swapped my old X-Fi Xtreme Music for this card but I'm having some problems I hope someone can help me with.

With the X-Fi it was pretty simple, I'd configure the speaker setup in Windows for 5.1 and I duly had front left, front right, centre, sub, rear left and rear right. However with the Xonar installed if I configure the speakers in Windows and select 5.1 there's no rear speakers, only side speakers. In order to get my rear speakers back again I need to select 7.1 which the Xonar doesn't support nor my speaker setup.

If anyone can understand my crap description of the problem can they advise what I need to do?
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In Windows CP select the tick box entitled 'Allow application override' or similar. Then try selecting 5.1 in the Xonar CP. Maybe.
 
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